Big favour to ask. It's kind of a make-or-break week for these out-of-hours workshops, so I'll be super-grateful - if you think your followers might be interested - if you could like and share the post below 🙏

"You can take modularity too far" say people repeating the same 20-line test setup 20 times.

A report that reflects on the Save the World with Patterns and Pattern Languages workshop held at PLoP 2025 (Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Processes) conference wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... If you are interested in furthering the conversation (or getting involved) please reach out.

Pride month, geen "op de barricade man" gesetteld, nooit gay gerelateerd geweld ervaren, altijd geaccepteerd in mijn 99.9 %- niet gay omgeving-, toch deze post want accepteren is niet vanzelfsprekend. Ook anno nog 2026 niet. Integendeel. Enne niet trots ofzo, gewoon Eric die van zijn man houdt.

Consulting Tip 12: How to Use Value-Based Fees to Stop the "You're Too Expensive" Trap www.jrothman.com/mpd/2026/06/... #Consulting #Fee

I don't teach tokenmaxxing. I teach feedbackmaxxing. Join me tomorrow evening at 18:45 GMT+1 for our final Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funding learners. Yes, your boss *should* be paying for it and giving you the time, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

Just so you know, Google's AI summary of my CRESS principles for context engineering is wrong. Here they are straight from the horse's mouth codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/c...

The best way to respond to my criticism that so many claims about AI productivity gains are presented without any evidence is to repeat the claims and then add an appeal to authority. I don't care who's saying it. Where's their evidence? Asking for a few million unemployed computing graduates.

Big favour to ask. It's kind of a make-or-break week for these out-of-hours workshops, so I'll be super-grateful - if you think your followers might be interested - if you could like and share the post below 🙏

In an interview for a "senior" role, if I present you with a ball of mud, ask you to change it, and you start hacking away without any discipline, the interview will be over in minutes. If you're wondering what I mean by "discipline", join me on June 16 or 20 www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

NEW training workshop for self-funding learners - REFACTORING June 16, 18:45 GMT+1 June 20, 09:45 GMT+1 Learn to reshape code *safely* to make change easy, while keeping it shippable at any time. It's a superpower, but still one of the rarest skills! www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

If you remove job satisfaction for software developers, you lose the intrinsic motivation - the individual and community goodwill - that the industry runs on. Look forward to a time when the people who stay are only in it for the money, and free software and sharing ends.

As someone who designed software for enterprise users and consumers alike: Everyone loves 400 new features appearing overnight. Do that 3-4 times and you’ll get customers for life! True story.

400+ features shipped in a week. That totally happened, and those users are definitely real.

Kind of a make-or-break week for me

NEW training workshop for self-funding learners - REFACTORING June 16, 18:45 GMT+1 June 20, 09:45 GMT+1 Learn to reshape code *safely* to make change easy, while keeping it shippable at any time. It's a superpower, but still one of the rarest skills! www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

I don't teach tokenmaxxing. I teach feedbackmaxxing. Join me tomorrow evening at 18:45 GMT+1 for our final Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funding learners. Yes, your boss *should* be paying for it and giving you the time, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

What pisses me off is that if a COO asked me to justify the ROI of teaching teams to work in smaller batches with faster feedback loops, I can easily point to real, measured impact on release cycle times and change lead times. More throws of the dice for the same investment, basically.

Let's take a moment to imagine the software industry being held to the same standards as most of the others.

A last reminder for folks who have the link that Early Access to registration for the Refactoring workshops on June 16 & 20 ends at midnight tonight. Tickets go up to £129 +VAT tomorrow when they go on general sale.

And there are still a few places left on our final TDD workshop for self-funders on Tuesday evening. Last time at just £99 + VAT. You can register at www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

A last reminder for folks who have the link that Early Access to registration for the Refactoring workshops on June 16 & 20 ends at midnight tonight. Tickets go up to £129 +VAT tomorrow when they go on general sale.

So many criticisms of Test-Driven Development have a kind of "Pull-ups don't work because the concrete gets frozen solid" energy to them, and I'm like "How exactly *have* you been doing it?"

French government: "People need food. Let's get them food." UK & US governments: "People need food. But do they *deserve* food?"

Tuesday evening's Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funders will be the last in the run. Not just red-green-refactor. You'll also learn how TDD fits with other disciplines like CI & CD, refactoring, and continuous inspection. An essential foundation. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

"PS. We've chronically underfunded public transport for decades for your convenience. kthxbye."

Tuesday evening's Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funders will be the last in the run. Not just red-green-refactor. You'll also learn how TDD fits with other disciplines like CI & CD, refactoring, and continuous inspection. An essential foundation. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

If you're a cinephile like me, you'll probably be aware of just rapidly the quality of movies improved in the 1960s and early 1970s. One important contributing factor was "video assist", because it enabled actors and directors to check takes immediately codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/f...

Actually ai is literally so good that we can’t actually capture its secret powerful “dark outputs” in silly things like “metrics”

Trump says he’s destroyed Iran’s military while Trump says we’ve left their military alone. Hard to know who to believe

Yes plagiarism machine bad, yes dubious ethics in its creation. Yes the machine is unreliable. But fake citations in paper is a pretty much gold plated proof that someone put a conclusion they wanted a machine to flesh out into the machine rather than doing research of their own.

Well, that's me for today. Let's finish on the most Deviny Townsendy Devin Townsend track of them all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n7u...

Quite a few folks from the US & Canada on my workshops for self-funding learners, including one who joined us at 2:30 am their time! Final TDD workshop of this run is Tuesday, thankfully not at 2:30 am your time. 18:45 GMT+1 Much more than red-green-refactor. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

I still think of this as a new album. It's 30 years old. I was 4 when it was released, of course. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljNE...

"What does it matter if I don't know the name of the code smell?" I'm imagining playing in a band with you, showing you where to put your fingers for Every. Single. Chord.

Have I got this right? The reason the franchise you loved in your childhood is attracting smaller audiences is because it went all "woke". Even though audiences are being sliced smaller and smaller as media is too? Even though it was "woke" the whole fucking time and you just never noticed?

#PapersInSystems discussions are by the community, for the community. Where community is formed around systems-informed design. Always grateful to the folk who lead the discussions, and who participate in them, deepening the learning for all of us with insights and connections to other work.

From Zero Tests to TDD: Your SwiftUI Testing Journey Starts Here 👣 https://qualitycoding.org/swiftui-tdd-first-failing-test-part-1/

Still some spaces available. Last TDD workshop of this run. Last time at the introductory price of £99 + VAT.

1. Introduce Parameter Object turns parameters of calculateQuote into a class with length & width properties 2. Extract Method - puts {room.getWidth() * room.getLength()) into new area(Room room) method 3. Move Instance Method area to room parameter object 4. Inline getLength and getWidth in Room

A: It's the LLM's go-to design choice - Primitive Obsession

A: Long Method (there are other smells hiding in there, but that's the main one - this method is doing too much)

A: Rename

A: Extract Method (or Extract Function)

Still some places left on Tuesday evening's Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funding learners. Last out-of-hours TDD workshop for the foreseeable. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

He's become his own Spitting Image puppet

Refactoring Quiz #5 - one for the Java (and probably C#) folks. Can you guess which sequence from the listed refactorings was performed here?

Refactoring Quiz #4 - What is this code smell called?

Quick reminder for folks who got my message about the Early Access offer for the Refactoring workshops on June 16 & 20 that it ends at midnight tomorrow, if you'd like to get a hands-on level-up with this *truly essential* code craft